Bottle attachment.



UNITED STATES Patented May 19, 1 903;.

PATENT OFFICE.

BOTTLE ATTACHM ENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part Gf Letters 13a-.tent NO. 728,735, dated May 19, 1903. Application filed March 5, 1.903. Serial No. 146,407. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern: y

Be it known that I, WILLIAM J. LowEN- STEIN,'a citizen of the United States, residing at Statesville, in the county of Iredell and State of North Carolina, have made certain new and useful Improvements in BottleAttachments, of which the following is a speciv fication.

. to be attached with a recess suitable for receiving, partly beneath the label, the corkscrew or other tool to be used with the bottle.

The invention is fully disclosed hereinafter and its novelfeatures pointed out and claimed, reference being had I to the accompanying drawings, which form ja part of this specification, and in which- Figure l is a side elevation of a bottle provided with my improvement. Fig. 2 is a central section through the upper portion of the bottle, showing the recess in the side thereof. Fig. 3 illustrates a modification of my improvement, and Fig. 4. illustrates the employment of an adhesive strip instead of a label for securing the corkscrew in place. Fig. 5 shows the corkscrew adapted to be used with my bottle provided with an advertising-tag.

A is a bottle. B is a recessin the side thereof, having the upper ring-shaped portion BY', adapted to receive the ring of the corkscrew, and the lower straight portion B2, adapted to receive the screw thereof. The recess is preferably made deep enough that when the corkscrew is placed therein it will lie about Aiiush with the outer surface of the bottle, and the recess is so located that preferably about onehalf of the upper ring shaped portion B' thereof will extend above the label, where it will be easily noticed and in position to be grasped between the thumb and linger of the user.

At one point in its circumference, preferably at the top, the ring-shaped portion B of the recessB is broadened and, if need be, deepened to form the recess B3 for the insertion of the thumb and linger nails in grasping the corkscrew.

The portion D of the bottle inclosed by the ring-shaped recess B' is in ,the same plane with the portions of the bottle on the outer sides of the recess, so that when the label is placed on the bottle Athe part of it extending across the ring-shaped section B of the recess will adhere to said portion D of the bottle.

The corkscrew C is first placed within the recess B, and then the label is pasted on the bottle, with its upper edge extending across the ring-shaped portion B' of said recess and preferably about the middle thereof, and as the upper central portion of the label adheres to the portion D of the sideof the bottle the corkscrew will be held securely in the pocket formed for it by the recess and label, thereby dispensing with the need of rubber bands, wires, tbc., for. securing the corkscrew to the bottle. Moreover, it will be impossible to use the corkscrewwithout first defa-cing the label, which renders it impossible to refill and use the bottle a second time without detection unless it shall have also been relabeled.

If desired, the recess may be so located on the face of the bottle as to be entirely covered Y by the label, in which case the'enlarged portion B3 of the ring-shaped recess will permit the easy tearing of the label to grasp the ring of the corkscrew by simply pressing the iinger-nails through the label into said recess.

Instead of using the label to hold the corkscrew n place I may simply employ an adhesive strip or seal extending across the ringshaped vportion Bof the recess and the circular portion D, as illustrated vin Fig. 4, in which case the recess for the corkscrew may be ou the reverse side of the bottle from the label, ifpreferred. Again, the corkscrew may be entirely covered by the label and have a string attached to it which extends out beyond one side of the label, when it may be easily grasped by the user to remove the corkscrew for use, as illustrated in Fig. 3; but the method already described is my preferred way of locating the recess with reference to the label.

In Fig. 5 I have shown in side elevation a view of the corkscrew adapted to be used with vmybottle and have shown the ring-shaped IOO portion of the same provided with an advertising-tag, such as is usually made of. tin, but may be made of any preferred material.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure byLetters Patent, is-

l. A bottle having a recess adapted to hold a corkscrew and an adhesive strip extending across a part of said recess as specified and for the purpose set forth.

2. A bottle having a recess adapted to hold a corkscrew, said recess having a ring-shaped portion for the ring of the corkscrew and a straight portion for the screw proper thereof;

and an adhesivestrip extending across theA label extending across the circular section 1ocated within the ring to form a pocket in the side of the bottle to hold a corkscrew as set forth.

5. Abottie having a recess in its side adapte ed to receive a corkscrew, and conforming substantially to the shape of the latter and enlarged at one point as specified and for the purpose set forth. t

6. Abottle having a recess in its side adapted to receivea corkscrew having a ring-shaped handle, the portion surrounded by said handie being flush with the adjacent portion of the surface of the bottle as set forth.

7. The combination with a bottle having a recess in one side, of a corkscrew tted in said recess, and an adhesive strip pasted across the recess and serving to hold the corkscrew in place as specified and shown.

WILLIAM J. LOWENSTEIN.

Witnesses:

MAX STERN, N. H. KUTTNER. 

